FDA Clears Nihon Kohden NKV-330 Ventilator
The NKV-330 provides noninvasive/invasive ventilation and high-flow oxygen therapy to adult and pediatric patients.
The NKV-330 provides noninvasive/invasive ventilation and high-flow oxygen therapy to adult and pediatric patients.
Most ventilated patients with severe COVID-19 regain consciousness after extubation, but 35% had delayed recovery of consciousness, according to a new study published online in the Annals of Neurology.
Covidien, LP (part of Medtronic) is recalling its Puritan Bennett 980 Series Ventilator due to a capacitor manufacturing assembly error that may cause the ventilator to become inoperable or stop working as intended, according to an FDA alert.
The FDA has provided answers to frequently asked questions related to the Philips CPAP, BiPAP, and ventilator recall.
Read MoreThe FDA says the Philips CPAP, BiPAP, and ventilator recall is a Class I recall, the most serious type of recall, which can cause death or injury.
Read MoreTo help advance education in the respiratory therapy profession and honor the life’s work of Robert Kacmarek, PhD, RRT, Dräger is donating a Babylog VN500 ventilator to each RT school throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Read MoreRT looks at the latest ventilators and critical care products on the market from manufacturers like Breas Medical, Dräger, Philips, Zoll, Hans Rudolph, and more.
Read MorePhilips has issued a recall in the United States, and a field safety notice for the rest of the world, for specific Philips bilevel positive airway pressure (bilevel PAP), CPAP, and mechanical ventilator devices.
Read MoreThe US FDA has issued clearance for several new software options for Getinge’s Servo-u and Servo-n ventilators, along with clearance for the company’s new Servo-u MR ventilator for the MRI room.
Read MoreThe BDR-19 critical care ventilator has received emergency use authorization from the US FDA, according to Nectar Product Development and BreathDirect.
Read MoreBreas Medical has received FDA clearance for the Vivo 45 LS, one of the smallest, full-featured life support ventilators on the market providing both invasive and noninvasive continuous or intermittent ventilatory support.
Read MoreThe US FDA has issued recommendations for healthcare providers for the potential use of ventilator splitters in situations in which no alternatives for invasive ventilatory support are available.
Read MoreThe distribution agreement will provide LTACs and skilled nursing facilities with access to Dräger’s and Breas Medical’s ventilator solutions.
Read MoreNPR reports that a woman with an intellectual disability and COVID-19 was taken to an Oregon hospital, where she was denied access to a ventilator and where a doctor wanted her to sign DNR/DNI forms.
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal is reporting that critical care departments are reverting to pre-pandemic ventilator protocols for treating COVID-19 patients.
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